Model’s callous Sandy photo shoot panned, spawns viral parodies

Every weekday, PR Daily associate editor Alan Pearcy highlights the day’s most compelling stories and amusing marginalia on the Web in this, #TheDailySpin.

For all the Gaps and American Apparels that have suffered relatively minor marketing self-destruction when compared to that of the damage produced by Hurricane Sandy, you’d think we’d have all learned our lesson. However, we’ve underestimated the human race yet again.

No stranger to spreading viral content, social news site Reddit has seen its share of positive and negative attention from the rest of the media. In a recent interview with ABC News, its co-founder Alexis Ohanian defends his site, as well as users’ Internet freedoms. Says Ohanian, “The challenge that Reddit faces, like all other social media sites, is how do we be better stewards of the technology."

Also defying naysayers, not to mention perhaps the law, Kim Dotcom unveiled on Thursday a “sequel” to his shuttered file-sharing site, Megaupload. "The new Mega will not be threatened by U.S. prosecutors," Dotcom told Reuters.

Doesn’t look like Ohanian or Dotcom will need to worry about defending their businesses. Haven’t they heard? Social media is dead. Social Media Today explains.

While Black Friday sales are far from dead, the number of shoppers we can expect to see post-turkey coma is dwindling. According to a recent IPSOS poll, 40 percent of deal-savvy consumers began their holiday shopping weeks ago, with only 12 percent likely to wait until the day after Thanksgiving.

All the more reason why Amazon wouldn’t wait. The e-retailer has already opened its Black Friday store more than three weeks prior to the deal and savings blowout.

A number of those provisional offices are most likely popping up in Starbucks throughout NYC. Just in time, Thought Catalog shares 16 ways to appear more productive at a coffee shop. What? You just went through a hurricane. You can’t be expected to actually be working.

As for working on weekends, I planned to spend the bulk of mine figuring out how exactly to transport KFC’s new deep-fried mac and cheese bites here from the Philippines. Hope yours proves equally as productive.

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